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Holden Torana GTR XU-1
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Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (17) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 2,500 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
A homologation special developed specifically for Bathurst with only 700 built, and genuine matching-numbers survivors are thinning steadily as the fleet ages. Values have more than doubled since 2016 and it carries iconic status among Australian muscle car collectors.
The market is very thin and largely trades privately or through specialist auctions rather than conventional channels, at an effective 78 days on market. Rust in the light-gauge original body is a real risk factor on unrestored examples. Provenance verification matters legally, but it is not what this market pays for: the dearest of three XU-1s sold in late 2023 carried a police-assigned chassis number and a replacement engine. Both published Australian sales are provenance cars - an ex-Holden test mule and a race-historied first-build - so there is no ordinary XU-1 result on record to price against, and the only recent ordinary figure is an asking price.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
143 verified LC/LJ GTR and XU-1 sales range $14,800-$275,000 (australianmusclecarsales.com.au, since 2003). The $348,000 record was an ex-Holden test mule and the $183,000 Strike Me Pink car had Sports Sedan race history; both are provenance results. Approx. 3,300 XU-1s built, many raced or rallied. A 1970 LC GTR XU-1, the earlier sibling of this car, passed in at a $75,000-$85,000 estimate at Shannons in May 2015, which places the market a decade ago well below where it sits now.
Eight ordinary LJ XU-1s sold at Shannons between 2016 and 2022, from $66,000 to $211,500, with the run rising through the period and peaking in February 2022. Two provenance cars sit far above that band - $183,000 for a race-historied first build and $348,000 for an ex-Holden test mule - and are excluded from the fitted value.
Read the rest of the evidence notes (5 more)
Three LJ XU-1s sold within thirteen weeks of each other in late 2023: $137,000 at Lloyds in September, $142,000 at Lloyds in November for a car described as matching-numbers, and $145,750 on 5 December at Mardella WA.
It was stolen and recovered by NSW Police, who assigned the chassis number it now carries, N927954P; the original was ALJ05952A. It also runs a replacement 3.3 engine. What it does have is a 2015 bare-metal restoration and seventeen years in one ownership. Set against a documented matching-numbers car sold three weeks earlier, the market paid 2.6 per cent MORE for the reassigned-identity car.
'matching numbers with log books' HAS THEREFORE BEEN CUT FROM 12 PER CENT TO 4. Three cars is a thin comparison and the September and December cars are not like-for-like on condition, so 4 rather than 0: the premium is not disproved, it is unmeasurable at this sample size and 12 was an assertion.
Which is the opposite of how the risk section of this record reads and is worth knowing before paying for paperwork. The December car normalises to about $154,800 at the 60,000 kilometres this record expects (it showed 48,639 miles, or 78,277 kilometres, at 3.2 per cent per 10,000).
Fourteen of the sixteen lots recorded here sold and two did not - 87.5 per cent, computed from this entry rather than from every lot ever offered. That is computed from the lots recorded in this entry rather than from every lot ever offered in Australia, so read it as the clearance of this sample rather than of the model. It is included because a failure to sell is evidence about where the market is not, and those lots would otherwise sit in the record doing nothing.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
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One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Holden Torana GTR XU-1, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.